Air Marshals Grounded In No Fly List Mixup

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False identifications based on a terrorist no-fly list have for years prevented some federal air marshals from boarding flights they are assigned to protect, according to officials with the agency, which is finally taking steps to address the problem. Read more

Narco-Terrorism Spreading to North America

A top official from the U.S. Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs says that narco-terrorism is spreading into North America.

David Johnson, assistant secretary for the INL, says that the illicit drug trade is directly linked to known terrorist groups in the Western Hemisphere and that these groups are employing terrorist tactics to traffic drugs into North America. Read more

Continued Aggression By Iran Sparks New Look At Options By U.S. Military

A second American aircraft carrier steamed into the Persian Gulf Tuesday as the Pentagon ordered military commanders to develop new options for attacking Iran. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports that the planning is being driven by what one officer called the “increasingly hostile role” Iran is playing in Iraq – smuggling weapons into Iraq for use against American troops. Read more

Israeli Intelligence Chief Warns of Massive Attack on Israels 60th Anniversary

Palestinian militant groups are seeking to launch a wide-scale attack on Israel’s 60th Independence Day in May, Israeli Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin warned Tuesday.

The major general told the cabinet that his agents have detected signs indicating the militants are planning an ambitious attack, which might resemble the one the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) foiled ten days ago at the border with the Gaza Strip, local daily Ha’ aretz reported. Read more

Smiley Face Gang – Detectives Say 40 Drowning Victims May Have Been Murdered

At least 40 young men who drowned may have died by far more sinister means — serial killings at the hands of a national gang that revels in murdering young men and leaving smiley-face markings at the scene, a team of retired New York City police detectives and criminal justice investigators said Monday. Read more

Thailand Police Seize More Than 1,000 Fake Passports

Thai authorities have seized more than a thousand fake Asian and Western passports and arrested a man in one of the biggest anti-counterfeiting operations in recent years, police said on Sunday.

Mohammed Karim, a 56-year-old from Bangladesh, was nabbed in a Bangkok townhouse late on Saturday where they found a sophisticated passport making operation and more than 1,000 finished and unfinished documents, Police Major-General Chaktip Chaichinda said. Read more

Possible Security Breach at Salt Lake International Airport

It may have been a case of a serious lapse of security at the Salt Lake Airport. A Wyoming woman says she boarded a plane for Las Vegas with a knife that somehow wasn’t detected.

Evanston’s Angela Dunford says the weapon was caught during screening Sunday in Las Vegas. But, somehow the knife with a three and half inch blade made it past security screeners at the Salt Lake International airport. Read more

Homeland Security Unveils Plans To Thwart Small Boat Terror Attacks

As boating season approaches, the Bush administration wants to enlist the country’s 80 million recreational boaters to help reduce the chances a small boat could deliver a nuclear or radiological bomb along the country’s 95,000 miles of coastline and inland waterways. Read more

Random Strangers Hunted, Slashed With Razor Blades For Gang Initiations In Florida

Investigators said a gang in Flagler County is sending its future members to Daytona Beach to seek out victims to cut. Once a gang recruit slashes a stranger, he gains the respect of his peers and is inducted into their underground society.

The latest victims have prompted a warning to the community from police. Read more

Al-Qaeda Pirates Target UK Ships – Attacks Increasing

Britains 18,000 merchant sailors face a growing danger from pirates with links to al-Qaeda.

Attacks worldwide are up 20 per cent this year – and tourists on passenger liners are now feared to be at risk. Read more

Pipe Bomb Explodes at Fed Ex Building In San Diego

A pipe bomb exploded at a Federal Express building in Webster early this morning. The bomb blew up just before 2 a.m. at the building on 47th Avenue near Federal Boulevard and broke the glass front door and set off the alarm, San Diego police said.

The fire department found a second bomb in the parking lot and detonated it, police said.
An employee at the business was unhurt. He told investigators he thought some boxes had fallen over.

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Face Scans To Trial In Airports This Summer – UK

Airline passengers will be screened using automated facial recognition technology rather than being checked by passport officers in an attempt to improve security in British airports.

Unmanned security clearance gates will be trialled in airports from this summer, where scans will match a person’s face to the record held on computer chip in their biometric passports. Read more

Man Linked To al-Qaeda Able To Get Canadian Visa

A man suspected of having links to al-Qaeda managed to secure a visa to live in Canada and was later arrested at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, CBC’s French-language service Radio-Canada reported Thursday evening.

The man, who is of Pakistani descent, obtained a visa to temporarily reside in Canada from the High Commissioner in London, according to a secret document sent to federal Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day from Canada Border Services last July.

The note, obtained by Radio-Canada, does not reveal the identity of the man but says he is implicated in al-Qaeda’s mass destruction weapons program.

CBSA agents arrested the man on July 12, 2007, when he arrived in Toronto from Newcastle, England. While verifying his passport, they determined he had been flagged by Canadian authorities.

Customs agents interrogated the man. He then requested to be returned to England while renouncing his visa, but the pilot wouldn’t let him on the plane.

He spent one night in a Toronto detention centre before being deported back to England.

British authorities were alerted about his return, but it’s unclear where he is now.

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Operation Torch – Anti Terror Police Take To New York Subways

Operation Torch – Part of New York City’s new effort to better defend against terrorism will include the introduction of machine-gun toting NYPD “Torch Teams” in the city’s subways.

In addition to the automatic weapons, the teams will also be patrolling subways with bomb-sniffing dogs. They will be outfitted with body armor as well. Beginning Thursday they will board trains and patrol platforms in Penn Station, Rockefeller Center, and Times Square. Read more

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